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MDLADIESJF FIOTIOH. Wc have most of ub at some period or another of our livo* taken up a tem- porary abode in lodgings, and have thus become acquainted with the land- lady of real life, whom we have pro- bat)ly found to differ somewhat from her conventional portrait, eays a writer in Chamber's Journal. In the pages of fiction she was, more often than not, forbidding of aspect and grasi)- ing of disposition, with many of the uuauiiable traits of the shark She WHS inexorable as to the punctual »el- tlement of her little billâ€" whir.h, how- ever, somehow always managed to ob- tain very considerable dimensions. She waa often the possessor of a cat, with a fine appetite for cold muilon and a nice taste in tea. From an interview with her. the lodger retreated dis- comfited oonlcut in the future to put up with any cxacUon, if only he might be left at peace. She waa altogether a sufficiently terrible perMon. even though her fury was at times comic enough. Not that aJl authors have drawn the landlady in such dark col- ore; but. generally siwaking. one rises trom the perusal of the novelists' pages with an unfavorable impression of the class ; and if we include under the head- ing landlady the hostess of an inn. we find asperity of temper a propiinent failing in that walk of lite also. Thus, Meg Dods forms a pendant to Mrs. Kaddle or Mrs. MacStinger. From per- sonal contact, however, we come to re- alize that the landlady is. as a rule, neither better or worse than her neigh- bors. Occasionally she possesses much t the milk of human kindness. Not anfrequently she bits played an im- portant, though unconscious part in the lives of men of letters. If no man IS a hero to his valet, the same might perhaps ))e said of the relation of an artist or author to his landlady. But to a touch of nature she responds at onoe. Thus, Mrs. Angel, the land- lady of the marvelous boy Chatter- ton, iiS associated with the .sad story of his last days in Brooke sireet. Hul- born. Knowing that he had eaten nothing for three days, she l)cgged him, en me 24th of August, 1770. to sh.are her dinner. But his proud spirit took offense at words wliich seemed to hint that he wua in want, and her kindness did not avail to avert his end. tioldsmilh. again, - experienced much kindness from Mrs. Fleming, his Lsling- ton landlady ; and wc are assured t hat her bills are again and again insig- nificantly marked £0 Us Od. His ar- rest for debt may pertuiMi, therefore, be laid at the door of some other land- lady, or Mrs. Fleming's long suffering patience may at length have become exhausted ; at any rate, we find the poet in his need sending for Ur. John- son, whose sympathy, as usual, took a practical form. "1 iwrrauved." says the Doctor, "that he had already ch'inged my guinea, .and got a bottle of Nladeria and a glass Iwfore him. I put tile cork in the iKiltle, desired he would be calm, and Utgan to talk to him of the raeuiis l)y which be might be extricated." Thus it camn aliout that Johnson sold the l)ookâ€" "The Vicar of WakefichI"â€" which was to add such luster to Goldsmith's name, to Francis Newbury, the pulilisher, for the sum of £60. Mrs. X'iozzi tells us that when Johnson came back with the money, the poet "ciilleil the woman of the house dire.ctly to partake of punch, and pas.s their time in merriment." Ilos- wcll. however, quutm this statement as "an extreme inaccuracy." But, to return to the characters of flclion. Dickens has purhaiM given us more examples of the landlady than any other author. Kvery reader of "i'ickwick" rememl)eiis tliat little fierce woman, Mrs. Kaddle, of Dant street. Horuugh. who was of opinion that if liob o.iwyer could afford to give a iKirly. he ought to bo able to afford to pay her little bill. It Li in vain thiit he lells hur ho has IxMin disapiKjinted in the city. Mr. Uenjuniin Allen's attempt to imur oil on the troubled wator«, by addressing her a« "my good soul" only provokes her to retort: "Have the goudneas to ki*p your oliserwoshuns to yourself." Under thfso circumstum'i'.i, Mrs. Ilad- dlc's wrath at the supiMir parly can not fairly Ix! ascrilied to pure maluvo- lcn(». Indeed, one has a sort of sym- pulhy with the poor lady, "having her house turneil out of window, and noise enough lujule to bring I he tire engines tieie <il 2 o'clock in the morning." us she remarked. The supinvness of her spouse, who regretleil that his strength was not equal to that of a dozen men, was another irritating factor in the situation. One can hardiv wonder, therefore. I hat the guctts of the cven- mg were treated with scant cureiuony as "a parc<!l of yuung cutters and carvers of live people's l)odies," or that Mr. l>i<!kwick was incluiled in I his ter- rible indictment. That uiiiiaiilu phil- osopher, in fact, wos told that he was "worsB than any of 'eiu," and old enough to l)e Bob Sawyer's grandfa- ther. The landlady of Capt. Cuttle is a termagant of a similar typ*;, and with- out so much justification for her out- bursts. She, however, was no d<iul>t presuming on the Captain's well-known kindness of heart. There in Brig Place, on the brink of the little canal near the India docks, that unfurl uiiale mar- iner lived in con.slant trepidation. Hero it was that Walter oiio dayâ€" washing day, of all otliersâ€" nailed to we him, •nd was told by thv Captain to ".Stand by and kncx^k agonâ€" hard." B<>fiire he could enter, however, ho had to sur- mount the "little woo<len fortification extending across the doorway, and put there to prevent the little MaiuStingers, »n their nmnients of recre^ilioD, from tumbling down the steps." The land- lady thereupon asks an imaginary au- dience whntner she is to be tiroken in unon by "raff," and opines (hat a lioy Who could ..nock her door down could get over that little olntruution. From Which we gather that her toiiiiH'r was aono of the Bweqtest, imd 1 sympalhixe with the Captain, who nevi-.r nweil liiT a penny, in hici remark that "she was a vixen at times." When Walter advised him to go elsewhere, he replies: "Uursn't do it, WaJ'râ€" she'd fine me out wherever I went." Later on, it viil be rememliered the Captain, on one of his rounds, meets the awful de- monstration, heatled by that determined woman, Mrs. MacStinger, who, preserv- ing a countenance of inexorable reso- lution, and wearing, coiuspicuously at- tached to her olxlurate l(0»om, a stu- pendous watch and oppendagesâ€" the properly of Buiisbyâ€" conducted under her arm no other than that sagacious mariner. Although on this occasion .Mrs. MacStinger vowed she bore no malice, but hoped to go to the alUr in another spirit, Capt. Cuttle (hay- ing dciirly bought his eiporiencej in vain advises Bunsby of the Cautious Clara, in nautical phraseology, to ''sheer off." Mi's. Bardell, on the other hand, is of a much gentler disposition; and. in spite of the breach of promise aoUon, much that is good can be conscientious- ly Slid of her. She was a comely wo- man, of l>ustling manners and agreeable ippearance, withâ€" that most excellent thing in a landladyâ€" "a natural genius for cooking, improved by study and long practice, into an exquisite talent." We know that in her house in Gos- well street Mr. Pickwell's will wius law; and we expect he had very little to grumble at in h'ls apartments, which though on a limited scale, were very ne;it and comfortable. Besides the.se advantages, there wore no children, no servants, -no fowls, if .she had a fault, therefore, it waa that of being too eas- ily led away by her feelings. Humor and pathos are happily blend- ed in the story of Mrs. LJrriper. the genial landlatly of No. 81 Norfolk street. Strand, who did not advertise in "Brad- shaw," like her rival, MLss Wozenham, lower down on the other side of the way. Of the ways of servant girls no one h;ul more experience ; they "are your first trial alter fixtures." and in her opinion, were mure trying even than the "wandering Christians," as she styled the individuals who amus- ed themselves by going over apartments they had no intention of taking. What iilelikc sketciies she gives us of the willing Sophy, always smiling with a black face, and of the violent Caroline Moxey I Sophy, indeed, was t he cause ot a gooil lottger giving warningâ€" for thuugU he had arrived at the point of admit ling that the black is a man and a brother, it was only in a uatural lorm, "and when it can't be got off." "i took a deal oi black into me, ma'am, wlK^n 1 was a small child," poor Sophy explains, "and 1 think it must be that It works out." Caroline Moxcy's tem- per wiis liie cause ol a deal ot unplea- antness, particularly on th<- occasion jf her letting down her hair, and rushing upsiiiirs to attack the unfor- tunate lodgersâ€" a newly married cou- ple. Mrs. Lirriper bad a eotl spot in her heart for her faithful lodger, Maj. Jackman. who was not to lie outdone t'y her in bin love for little Jemmy, the triLst committed to them by the dying Mrs. i':dson. How forgiving, too. w:i« her conduct to Mis-s Wozenham when that rival had fallen on evil days and was being sold upâ€" the systematic underbidding and the enticing away of the servant being buried in oblivion. Mrs. Todgurs. the proprietrix of the comiui-rcial t>oiirdiug house near the Monument, was a rather "liuny and hard-ieaiured lady, with a row of curls in front of her head shaped like little barrels of Ijct^r, and on ihe top of it something made of netâ€" you couldn't call ii ii cap exactlyâ€" whiou looked like a black coli«eb." We have it irom hec own lips, that presiding over such an e8tabli>,umeut makes sad havoc with the features. "The gravy alone," as she informed Miss I'l-xksiiiff, "is enough to add twenty years to one's age." in her opinion, there wu« no such iwssion m human nature as the passion tor gravy amoug commercial gentlemen. Neverihelews, she owned to leelings of a tender nature for Mr. recksnuf â€" unworthy though he wa<*â€" and beiricnd- ed his dauguier, Mercy, alter her unfortunate marriage with Jonas Chuz- zlewil;. Landladies abound in the pages of Thackei.iy, and he treats Iheiu with a mixture of humor and pathos all his own. To bo forced to leave a fiin' house, and subside into lodgings, ur to have been better days, and suiisist by let ting them, .ire cUangea ot fortune which furnish many illustrations fiu' his text, "vanitas vanit.atum." Among his iesser cUaraoters we have Mis. Creed in "Pendennis," who, in addition to tieing pew-o(>cnor, was landlady of Miss Fotheringay, the daughter of Capt. Costigan. Accoriliiig to her own account, she watched over that young lady's doings with the vigilanc« of a Cerlierus rathiT than an ordin- ary ohapt^ron. Thus it was that Dr. I'ortnuin an<l the Major, anxious as they were to win Ron from liis infatu- ation for tile fair act reus, could find norhing to object to in her liehavior. "Whenever lie cume," Airs. Cree<l in- formed them, "she always have me or one of the children with her. And Mrs. Creed, niarm. says she, if you please, inarm, you'll on no account leave the room when that young gentleman's hero. And many's the time I've seen hira a-lookin' oa it he wished 1 was away, poor young man." From the same novel we have Mme. Friaby, the dressmaker, who lets apartnionts In Mr. Smirke.' the curate, and encour- ages his affection for Uie widow, Helen I'eiidenni.s. The history of Mr. and Mrs. Sedlcy after the criush is associated with their landlady, Mrs. Clapp, at Urompton. 'I'he old lady, we are told, was occupiwd and amused with the doings of the Iri.sh maid. Betty Flanagan, "her bonnets, her ribbons, her saucine.ss, her idleness, her reckless prodigality of kitchen can- dles, her rxinsumption of tea and sugar, and so forth," almost as much as she had IxMin with the doings of her own household in former days. Mrs. Sed- ley was alw.iys a great person for hor landlady when she descended and pass- ed many hours wilh hor in the uaao- ment or ornamental kitchen. But this was in compiiratively halcyon days. The i|Uestion of rent was even looming in the liackprouud, and gradually the pleasant intyrcoui'se. lietween the land- lady and lodger ceurted. Mrs. Clapp, in her nether eaalin, "grumbles in secret I to hor husiliand about the rent, and urgcji the goo<l fellow to rebel against I his old friend and patron and present lodger." Finally, one day Jos' car- nage arrives and carries off old Sed- ley and his daughter to return no more. Amelia hud always lieen kind, and when she was going away, tho land- lady bitterly reproached herself for ever having uiaiui a rough expression Id her. There wa« gf^nuiiie regret for their departure, "lliey would never have such lodgers again, thai was clear;" and thb author tellis ua that after-life proved the truth of this mel- ancholy prophecy, and that Mrs. Clapp revenged herself for the deterioration of mankind by levying the must savage contributions upon the tea-caddies and Uiga of mutton of lier locataires, "Most ot them scolded ajid grumbled, some of them did not pay, none of them stay- ed." Then we luive Mrs. James 6ann, in "A Shabby Genteel Story," who lets lodgings at Margate; Mrs. Bran- don, the "little sister," in the "Ad- ventures of Philip;" and Mrs. Ridley, m the "Newcomes," of whom, did space permit, much might be said. Thack- eray's finest portrait in the way of landladies, however, is that of Miss Honeymun, the aunt of Clive Newcomc. A woman of a thousand virtue.s. cheer- ful, frugal, honest, laborious, charitable â€" such IS the character of the little brisk old lady in Steyne Gardens, whose superior manners and prosper- ity won her title of Ducheas from the neighboring tnulespeople. We can im- agine her to ourselves with her "large cap, bristling \vi..h ribbons, with her liest chestnut front, and her best black silk gown and gold watch." as she stands prepared lor the interview with Lady Anne Newcome. Suffice it in conclusion to give one or two examples of the sisterhood drawn from the pages of Sir Walter Scott. What a wonderful picture is that of the wild inn at Al>erfoyle, and of its no less wild landlady, Jean Mac- Alpine, on iIm' night when Frank Os- baldistone and the others arrived there. Iteluctant to receive her guests, she ap- pears liefore them a pale and thin figure, with a soiled and ragged dress, a lighted piece of split fir blazing in her hand. With her black hair in un- combed elf-locks, she looked, indeed, like a witch disturbed in the midst of her unlawful rites. She had little opinion of the idle English loons that went atx)ut the country "under the cloud of night and disturbing hone.st. pe^aceable gentlemen that are drinking their drap drink at the fireside." Alternately, however, after the sCorniy interlude of the fight lietween the Bailie and the Highlander, she consents to prepare a savory mess of venison coUops for the tired and hungry travelers. As a con- tr.ast to Jean MacAlpine, we turve the landlady of the small and comfortable inn at Kippletringan, Mrs. McCand- Itsh. who so well knew the rece|>tion to which each of her customers was entitled. Wilh unfailing tact. To every guest the appropriate speech was made. And every duty with distinction paid. Respectful, eiuy, pleasant, or polite, "Vour honor'.s nervant 1 Mr. Smith. good-nidht." .Such we fiu:l her on that cold and stormy night in November when she receives Col. M:iniiering seventeen years after the dis;ipix'arance of little Harry Bertram. Most elaburate of all is the de.scription ol that old-world landlady Meg Dods, who ruled with despotism of Queen BeKf herself. We can pic- lure her with lortR. skinny hands, and loud voice, as she ordered about not only men and maid servants, but her Iruosis themstdM-s â€" meinliers perchance ol Killnaketty Hunt or ancient breth- ren of the anTle from Edinburgh. The iiombers of this hunt, it will \>e remem- tiered, were treated wilh some indul- gence. "A net of honest men, they were." Meg .-ciid ; "I h.xd their song and their joke, and wh.at for no?" HRR MAJKSTY'S VAIL. It is one proof among many that the Queon has been a good Queen, that to this day. when she has reigned so nearly to sixty years, her Majesty's personal seclusion has lieen maintain- ed, and she is atilil to the mass of her subjects, indeed probably to all except three or four close relatives and friends, something of a veiled figure. Tho veil which shrouds our monarchy would not l« respccti'.d for a week if the monarch were tad, either personaWy, or politi- cally. Sumo few fucts. however, may lie taken as certain, and are, indeed matters of common knowledge. The Queen, at first through her huslnnd, afterward in her own strength, has for ihe last fitly years exercised a great influence upon affairs, especially upon foroigM poluics; has accelerated or im- peded the choice of tho Ministers, has teen tho dose confidant of every Pre- uuer, and his on- every adequate ou casion exerted the tuU influence which must belong, be the Constitution what it may, to the person who, lieing arm- ed with the imprescriptible and self-de- rived charm of the throne, has the right to explain ihuir plan;. When you must, explain to your wife, your wife has influence, and the Queen ihruughoiii hor reign has Ih-cu at least wif(! to llui Ministry of the day. Yet, Ln all that time, no uiio can i>uint to an ocoasiim im which the Queen nnd her Ministry have lieen in collision, or in which sue has done any act over which wise Miniators grieved, or in which she ha.s in tho slightest degree, we will not say forfeited, but dimin- ished, the confidence of her people. Humor, proliably false In detail, has at- trilmted to tho t^u.^n many preferen- ces for one Prtmiier over auother, and it is incredilile that she h.is liked 1hi«n all eqiully, but she has invariably ac- copleil the Premier whom tho nation expected her to choose, and Ihe innst malignant ot taJemongers has never ac- cused tho Palnco of intriguing against tho party in po>vor LANfiUAtJE 8POKKN BY CHRIST. It is said tlmt tnere is one, and <mly one, work extant written in Ihe lan- guage in which the .Saviour commonly spoke. TliJ authority f<ii Ih's stiilv- ment is Dr. Meyer, of the I'niversily of B(mn, who has made a s|ieiMal study of the question. The work is known Hs the "Jerusalem Talmud," anil it was written in Tilierias in the third i-vn- tury after Christ. According to this autnorily Jesus spoke a Galilean dialect of the Artunaio tongue. The Aramaic is one of the Seuiitio family of lan- guages, a sister t^uvgue of Ibe Ile- nrow. Aramaic was at one period tho languag(« of business intercourse be- tween Syria and the countries further east. A POPULAR GIRL. Miss De Luineâ€" You .s«'em to be very fond of your friend. Misf Hair. You never tire of kissing her. Miis D«( Bilkâ€" Well, I do not o^re much for hor personally; but did you notice what a sweet little mustaobn she hast LEGLESS CHAMPION ATHLETE. LmI llln I.cgi IB a Blizzard, and iBVCuted ArlllcUI Oaeii. Another chamitimi has appeared in the West. The Chkago Times-Herald says that he is the miost remaizkable pede- strian that ever walked on artificial legs. His name is James T. Farrier and he says that he is willing to walk against any man who uses artificial legs, a distance of from one mile to five miles. If the stories told of bis exploits are true he would proliably wiji such a match. Mr. Farrier lost both of his feet some years ago and ajrtificial ones have taken their places. He walks readily without the aid of crutch or cajie. can dance with ease and grace, is a high- kicker of note, and would not bethought to be a cripple by a person who did not know him. He can easily kick a hat held nearly eight feet from the floor. He has a record of fifteen feet in three standing jump. Before he lost his legs he rode one of the old-fashioned l>i- cycles and next suauner he expects to master a safety and ride it as well as a professional. AS GOOD AS FLESSH AND BLOOD. Mr: i'arrier's artificial legs are made after designs invented by himself. Ihey are ot aluminum, sole leather and rubuer. 'ihe joints work naturally and easily. He wears shoes on the feet, which are made of leather and rubber. The joints work naturally and easily. Kacb leg weighs two ajid three-quar- ter pounds, atiout one-fifth of the weight of the usual artificial leg. Be- fore ii» secured the legs with which he has broken all records for artificial lunbs he had tried a nuuilier of arti- ficial legs, but none of ihean gave him liatisfactiou. They were too heavy and cumbrous, and h«^ could not walk any distance 'with them with ease. He wanted legs on which he could pursue bis avocation of f aiming, and in order to get tb<>m he had to invent them. Mr. Farrier lost hiS legs in a blizzard in Polk County, Minn., in the Red Riv- er Valley. While returning heme from Minneapolis in February, i;93, he started to walk fxom tihe railroad sta- tion to his farm, Whej) less than half a mile from hts hous<> the storm struck hm and he found it iun)oesible to find his way in the blihding snow and awful wind. All night he remained outdoors. and -when found in the morning was almost dead. His feet were frozciii sol- id, and both were amputated. He takes liis m.'sfortune cheer lully and s-iys he is glad it was b|.s feet instead of his hands because there are many Iblngs a man do<!s withi bis hands that he can- net do with bis feet. CZARINA'S MAIDS OF HONOR. An interesting account of the Russian Empress's maids of honor is given in a recent number of Lo Figaro. ..The girls selected for the office become at once their own mistresses, though subject to tlie laws of a fixed and un- alterable court etiquette. Kven at sixteen, the lowest age at which they can appear at court, they may adorn themselves with diamonds or cover themselves with jewels like a saint's im- age. They are entitled, whatever their social position, to Iw present at cere- monies, from which in most coses their families are excluded. When a girl is selected she begins by becoming a maid of honor "with the cipher," and wears on her left shoul- der the Empress's monogram embroid- ered on a light blue ribbon. It has been xaidthat at the Russian court the oldest nobles are in reality nothing but high- er sdaves. rul<>d as much as tho lowest of peasants by the autocratic will of tho sovereign. The wearing of the cipher may lie only a sign of an earlier serf- dom. Tho txwtume wlbich the maids wear on state occasions is gorgeous. It consists of a skirt of white satin, fast- cnod from throat to feet with jewelled buttons. Over tHis is worn an over- skirt of red velivet with gold figures, and a long train and with wide pagoda sleeves. The must characteristic part of the custome is the headdress, a kind of diadem called kukochnik, recalling by its shape the stephane ot the ancient Samoyede Junes. The kakochiiik with the pavon'ik, which aristocratic nurse- maids still wear in St. Petersburg and Moscow, Is the only part ot the great Uussian iHietume borrowed for tho nsr- tion.Tl dress. It is of rod velvet like Ihe tunic, and covered wilh jewels. To it is attached a long while veil of tulle, which sweeps behind the gilded folds of the train. This splendor lasts only for a time, however. After a few years tho maid ot honor "with the oipher" is promoted to a maid of honor, "with tho portrait," and exclmnges tbe rich crimson ovor- skirt for one more quiet, of emerald groen embroidered in siliver. To make up for it tjie Czarina allo%v» the sulisti- tution of her portrait set in diamonds tor tho monogram!*. SometiiiieH also they receive tho decoration ot .St. Cath- erine, on order established by Peter the Groat for women only, as a rewmipense tor services done to the court. As a general rule it is from among the daughters of goneral officers or high functionaries that the Empress picks out her maids at her own pleas- ure. There are several institutions in Russia for tho eductaion of those girls, resembling somewhat tho schools of the Legion of Honor in France. TIk oliiases for the older girls are called nurseries. The pupils are there taught etiijiuetle and the faultless manners on which their future depends. Their cos- tume Is a simple woollen dress, with a silken apron. The upper part of the wiiLst anil the lower part of the sleeves can be detached, however, and when the Czar, the absolute master of these es- tablishments, which he supports from his own privy pur.se, appears unexpect- edly, the young chouldors and arms are at oniM^ laid bare. It mti»t be a cbarm- Ing sight. The late Emperor Alex- ander II. Is said to h&ve taken parti- cular delight in it. HE GOT HER. ~ He asked her father for her hand. Hut did the iMinMit frown f Not miuch I Tho suitor waa a doll. But the richest one in town. THE BLOOD FvrelelU Befsre Ihe tletloi is Aware •# nisraxr. Dr. R. L. Watkins. of New Tork city, who has made several valuable discoveries concerning the effect of con- sumption on the blood, says: "It is now poesilVe for medical sci- ence to foretell the approach of the most dreaded disease many mimtba or even years before the ordinary symptonul appear. This new science, it se«ms tot me, will in time revolutionize the ordi- nary forms of medical treatment of th* day. It has been found recently iba,t tbe blood, not only of man but of moet) animals, give unmistakable signs of tho approach of disease. Important dLscov- eries in this new science liave been mads recently in France and Germany. I be- lieve that I may claim the credit of first discovering the first germs of tba dreaded consumption. "It is only necessary to see a drop or two of a man's blood under tbe mic* roscope in order to foretell disease witU scientific accuracy. Tlie earliest symp- toms of apoplexy, paralysis, heart dis- ease and consumption may be recog- nized very readily. It will, of course, be readily understood that it is very much etisier to treat any disease if ill be discovered in its earliest stages. Con- sumption can now be detected from the appearance of the blood a year or mora before any cough sets in. At, thifi early stage the blood will be found td contain a number of small grey gran- ules whicjh float around in the liquon of the blixid. The<se o'len collect Inl round patches and in time develop into red oelils and pervade the limg tissues, forming tubercles. The familiar tub- erculi baccilli of consumption in turn feed upon these cells. "I have found that when a long line or rift appears sharply dividing the blood corpuscles the patient is suffer- ing from the incipient stages of apo- plexy. It this line lie long and sharply defined there is no immediate danger. 'This symptom can often be observed long before there is any other indi- cation of the dread disease. "One of the most curious of these blood symptoms are tbe web feet in tbe liquor of the blood, which foretell para- lysis. When the-se appear in large numlters it is a sure indiiatinn that tbe heart is not strontJr enough to pumj> the blood as it should. In blood of this sort tbe red corpuscles often appear td lie entangled in a miss of web. These are likely to dug the muscular veins, or thu^ei of the heart. If the heart veins get clogged up |>araly.<is follows, while if the veins of the brain are ob- structed paralysis of tbe limtis in to lie expect i>dl "Rheumatism of the heart is due to the presence of dirt or other extrane- ous matter in Ihe blood. This often rtvsuLta in the rupture of the l>lood ve«- se!H. When this extraneous matter ao- ouiuulatet} to a certain extent it pro- duces a convulsicji of pain in pas-sing the heart, and tends to 8lo{> the ac- tion of that vigorous organ. Blood of this kind may readily lie diagnosed when seen under the microscope. The bloid of the huniiin sy.stein <-an readily lie cleaned by electricity and other agents, and lie freed of all foreign mat- ter. The time may not lie tar distant when people will have their blood regu- larly examined ami cleaned." NEW PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS. Tbej Will tr Opeard iil VIrlurln. K. t'., I*y Priuri' l«.'oru;e of WnleH. Victoria and Vancouver orj making ready 'for th'.- oiviiintr of tbe new iiar- liaiuent buildings at th:.> capital uf Bri- tish CcCuniliia, says tho Chiiago Timee- Horaid. i'h«' dedication will Ix- atten- ded by royally in th." p^'rson of PriiKe George of Wak^'s, th • son of i.he heir apiiarent to th.- British throne. The buildings are of superb architectural de- sign, and have coei th.> -sum ot 91,000,- 0011 Victoria is a fine city at thio southoiijit oxlremity of the Uand of Vancouver. 'lh"re ar«' many tine build- ings within its wads, chief of which were th»> o.d jiarliame-nt liuildlugs. The city is not bull; uiton any plun and may be Bald to b,' an English city trans- planted oo th.' far Pacific coast. Olbet lino liuildings in Vi.ioriu are I'he post- oflice, . cusiom-hou.s*', supreme court house, governiuent huas<', officia/. res- idence of the lio^uteiiant governor, the city haj, the Roman Catholic cathe- dral and the public schools. Tht' pop- ulation of the city Ls 23,001), princiivally Eiijfli.sih. The wtal.hy people of Van- couver live iMi th > Lsland and th'>< poor- er ih'op.i,. on tiu- mainland. From this |x>n tbe finest ships that sail the Pc- c fie go forth. One iinc runs to Chi- ua, anoihi-r to Japan, anoih'r lo Aua- traiia. and there are st-veral lines whose tihips pLy beiw\>evn Victoria ami .\iuer- ican coa.st jioris. 'Ihousands of Eng- lish travellers going to and coming from the »'iust iia.ss through Victoria and tiiiuida oji their way home or abroad over ih- Canadian "Pacific Railroad. I'heielpy avoiding lbs United Slates. It is ihis routo which wi.I tie takciii by J'rince George', who wlill not do this country the honor of setting his foot upou its soiC. A PIIOWRU OK ANTS. A remarkulde phenomenon was wit- nessed in Jerusiilem at the beginning of July. A swarm of flyiuif ants set- tled upon the city, and filled the air from sunrise until o'clock. Visitors to tho Holy .Sepulchre were ol)lige<l to use their handkerchiefs constantly in order to keep the insecls oui ot their eyes and nostrils. The natives aswert- ed that this extraordinary flight of ants was the precursor of an earth- quako. Whether there was any real connection l.etween tho two phenom- ena or not, as a matter of fact two s ight shocks of earthiiuake was felt in Jerusalem on the evouing ot the same day. ONE TO HIS CREDIT. Osmund, h«ve vou attended any ol the fall openings? Yes, last night I stepped into a toaJ bole.